Hello, everyone. I am Yeser from Syria, and I am glad I found this forum.
I started playing guitar when I was 8 years old with the only motivator being my parents saying "You won't regret it." and they were right indeed. I started learning classic guitar on my nylon-strings classic-acoustic guitar. I was taught in Arabic language and I learned only classical music. Also I was lazy, I procrastinated a lot, and there would come times where I would stop playing for more than 5 months. I kept telling myself that I loved the guitar but in truth I didn't. However...
Some years ago the dawn of war came upon my beautiful country. No electricity, sometimes no food and water, no safety...etc. All I had was my friends, my books, and (you guessed it) my guitar.
I picked up the guitar once more... I had no teacher, I had not played the guitar for an entire year, there were mortar shells and firefights outside (allow me to get dramatic) and I played the guitar...
I played the Metro: LL & Metro: 2033 Theme by memory. It fit the atmosphere... it was... perfect.
Ever since then (6 months ago) I have been playing the guitar with true passion and dedication. I make use of the internet whenever possible and I realized that I'm not that good. First I don't know anything about music theory in English. Sure, my English is good and I knew music theory in Arabic but for some reason it's very hard to re-learn music theory in English. Also I realized I need so much practice in other genres. All I played was classic fingerstyle. I wasn't even taught one chord!
But that's okay. Guitar learning is not a competition, but a beautiful journey that requires passion & dedication. I've progressed in these 6 months more than my entire life of playing guitar. I am glad I've crossed paths with all of you, and I'll be looking forward for receiving advice, criticism, and making new friendships.
To the beauty of the challenge,
Y.B
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